The Dillon tribune., 1887-02-18
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Bozeman is to be lighted by electricity.
Miles City expects TO he washed out
when It thaws.
Julius Khos is tie newly elected mayor
OF Virginia City.
The snow averages three feet in depth at
White Sulphur Springs.
The Anaconda s,nc,tcr, i: is reported.
has closed down till May.
Belle Hudson, Helena cyprian. sui
citcd Monday with a revolver.
Miles City had Il $4,000 fire last week
Three buildings were burned.
The Pyle Opera Company is playing
two.wceks' engagement in Butte.
Scal has made its appearance in several
bands Of sheep in Fergus county.
The body Of Mrs. VIM. Owsley, of Butte
was taken 10 Port Jcrvis, u. ", for burial.
Mrs. I. II. Aion:eith was seriously In
;ured in tohosgan accident at Butte last
week.
a Father Upcnurch .nemoria' service
| was held in the Presh> terian church, at
Butte. Sunday.
! Edwin e.. Yields has been appointed to
be Indian agent at the Fort Helknap
agency, Montana.
Two Butte school boys ran away from
home last week. They wanted to see
something OF the world.
g. -. st.,.,s,,;i,, E,;j,x p;ykt
burned UP two buildings belonging to F.
L. II. Buck. Loss about 81 COO.
Eight buildings were destroyed by tire
a, Anaconda last Saturday morning. Loss
about 20, 1000; insuyacc, about S:a,coo.
r Fergus county cattle and sheep men arc
, wearing gloomy countenanccs. The loss
Of stock IN that county will I've heavy.
\ bear wa, found on Lower Rock
= Greek, near Dur!ec's mill, Deer Lodge
county, with his tongue !rozsn ,o mon.
!, key wrench.
. An Englishn,a,,, named Elliot, who left
Fort Assinaboine for Maple Creek, several
weeks ago, is supposed to have rcrisl,cd tn
the recent storm.
The old academy ot music building, at
d Helena, burned last Saturday morning.
A man named Magec was burned to death
in the building Loss, about 6.ooo.
IN The senate bill authorizing the Billings,
y. Clark's Fork Il Cooke City Railway com
h. pany to construct and operate n Railway
- through the Grow Indian Rcscrvatior,
Of passed.
X After two weeks Of continuous pumping,
10 using three No. J Knowles pumps. the
It, Morning Star shaft is clear Of water.
Il. Sinking and STOPPING will he resumed
re vigorously. -.Ni"cr.
Mrs. Mary Bielenbcrs died Il. Deer
ty Lodge last Friday, the nth inst, Of con-
ne sumption. Mrs. Bielenberg WAS among the
RS first settlers Of the territory and had hosts
IN of friends The funeral WAS the largest ever
IT, seen in Deer Lodge.
g a Benton man offered 500 Tor u ton
o' Of coal last week. The offer was refused.
'c' Buildings and fences are being torn down
y" and used for fuel Ono man has offered to
as take several families into his house and
SC warm and feed them un,il the fuel famine
% is over.
-, The books for recciving subscription. to
-, the capital stock oi the Missoula and Bit
ter Root and l)runmond and Philipsburg
-. railroad companies we're opened at Helena
February y, 1857. The capital stock o
the former is placed ut $r,ooo,ooo and th'
% latter At $sooooo.
|th The work OF shovcling snow on tn
les Cta,, and Northern is almost as hazardou
MI to the snow shovclcrs as is the work c
digging the Panama canal 10 the lahover
employed thereon. Some twenty Of then
have had their feet frozen and been re
49, moved 20 the hospital at Ogden.--Af;ro.
la, Con Kol,rs is reported a> having los
ra. 500 head Of stock cattle in the Big lIo!
st. Basin during the late ,torm. y hcav
cr stockm below Dillon i, also out hc.wce
of 900 and l,soo cattle. From Anaco.d
In. visitors We learn that OF. the l;h inst tw
,x fee, nl SNOW fell all over tho section c
the country between that point ard the III
ute Hole if,hc above is true the cattle losse
US OF the county will be almost b:yond es:
is mate -Philipsburg Mail
s4'" Some sensation has heen caused tn
Il